Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa with its capital at Ouagadougou. On 4 April 1984, President Thomas Sankara renamed Upper Volta to "Burkina Faso", which means "The Republic of Honest Men" in the Mossi language. The country established itself as a contender when it fought a war with Mali, the "Agacher Strip War", but it was weakened when Blaise Compaore led a 1987 coup that led to the assassination of Sankara and the start of a dictatorship that would rule until the 2014 Burkinabe Revolution by Michel Kafando. On 17-24 September 2015, the country was under the control of Gilbert Diendere's military government, but African Union pressure forced him to step down and return the country to democracy. In 2014, Burkina Faso has a population of 17,322,796 people, with 47.9% being Mossi, 10.3% Fulani, 6.9% Lobi, 6.9% Bobo, 6.7% Mande, 5..3% Senufo, 5% Gurunsi, 4.8% Gurma, and 3.1% Tuareg. 60.5% of the population is Muslim, 23.2% Christian, 15.3% animist, .6% other, and .4% atheist.